Philosophy by the Way

Some time after Montaigne, also Francis Bacon (1561-1626) has written a book with essays. Some say that he has been inspired to do so by Mon...

Random quote A lot of people are gullible, who in their approval are not guided by the argument itself, but by the person who speaks, no ma...

I think that all of you know about them, but nevertheless again and again we fall into the trap: cultural misunderstandings. I got the idea ...

Random quote Dissimulation is only a faint kind of policy or wisdom; for one needs a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the...

Constructed from real photos; no AI. The end of the year is always a time that we look back on what we did and on what happened around us, a...

Random quote I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war. Psalm 120:7

 

People like narratives, but people also like heroes, straight lines, unidimensional developments, events that happen for a reason and destin...

Random quote We know that sometimes in war fortune is more impartial than the disparities in forces would suggest. Surrendering would insta...

Spinoza enlightens the world (image constructed from real photos; no AI) Recently, I attended a lecture on Spinoza, and at the end someone a...

Random quote There is never doubt in the soul because of what is doubted ... Doubt will just exist because of a second idea, which, however...

Spinoza's Opera Posthuma (Posthumous Works) with the Ethica ,  published in 1677 by his friends after his death.  As regular readers of...

Stone bricked in the wall of the Spinoza House in Rijnsburg Ah, if all men were wise And wanted good! The earth would be a paradise. Now sh...

In his essay “ Of vain subtleties ” ( Essays I, 54) Montaigne writes that “there are a sort of little knacks and frivolous subtleties from ...

Random quote A moment’s reflection reveals the deep counterintuitiveness of lines: That in a culture with an increasing sense of impatient ...

Photo taken in Amersfoort, NL, on the Boogschutterplein At the end of my last blog I raised the problem that often it is not easy to say whe...

Random quote Whichever side a crime comes from, whether it is in the name of the throne or the state, it is equally appalling, godless and ...

AI photo by https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator and edited by me. In my blog last week, I stated that I don’t perform an actio...

Random quote Science is a form of arrogance control . Carol Travis (1944-) and Elliot Aronson (1932-)

In my blog two weeks ago, I argued that waiting – if it is not a waiting that happens to you, because, for instance, you are in a lift that ...

Random quote Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) wrote about 250 years ago: Nature’s productive capacity is so great that t...

Bus stop in Paris My readers may have noticed that I have become increasingly interested in “boring” questions of daily life, such as waitin...

My philosophical blog reached a milestone: Today my blog passed the magical limit of ONE MILLION views . I started writing these blogs 1...

Anonymous author. Music by Henry Le Bailly (158?-1637) Sung by Montserrat Figueras

Two weeks ago, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize, although a narcissistic political leader cl...

Random quote I want to do AI my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing, so that I can do ...